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(RNS) — It has been less than a week since the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott became the U.S. representative-elect for Iowa’s third congressional district, but the minister turned politician — one of several elected to Congress in the midterms — is already focusing on what she plans to do when she gets to Capitol Hill in January.

“We have such a great new group of people coming into government,” Garriott told Religion News Service in an interview. “We’re going to be able to do some really wonderful things together.”

She still doesn’t know whether she will mention her reverend title in official congressional press releases — “What do other folks do?” she responded to RNS when asked — but she was quick to outline her legislative priorities: pass bills that could halt President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, end the war in Iran, strengthen the Affordable Care Act, support rural hospitals and invest in child care and education.

“I…